Bjorn Lind

Bjorn Lind
Bjorn Lind (2006)
Full name	Bjorn Johan Lind
nation	Sweden
birthday	22nd March 1978 (age 42)
place of birth	Ljusterö ,  Sweden
size	190 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Hudiksvalls IF
Trainer	Ola Rawald
National squad	since 2000
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin Team sprint gold 2006 Turin Single sprint  Swedish championships bronze 2003 floor Single sprint
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 28, 2000  World Cup victories in individual 3 ( details )  World Cup victories in the team 1 ( details )  Overall World Cup 4. (05/06)  Sprint World Cup 1. (05/06)  Distance World Cup 115th (05/06)  Tour de Ski 63 (06/07)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 3 2 3  Team sprint 1 5 1
Placements in the marathon or Worldloppet Cup
Debut in the Cup February 3, 2008  Overall rating 25th ( 2010/11 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single race 0 0 1

Björn Johan Lind (born March 22, 1978 in Ljusterö , Österåker municipality ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier .

Since 2000, Lind has been participating in the World Cup on a regular basis and has always been a podium candidate ever since. After just a few World Cup races in the 2001/02 season, the sprinter achieved results in the top ten, and in the same winter he celebrated his first podium result. As early as 2002 he achieved fourth place in the Olympic sprint final as Sweden's best runner, and he achieved the same placement in the 2005 World Championship final. Lind reached his career high point when he became double Olympic champion in Turin in 2006, with victories in individual and team sprints. In the 2005/06 season, which also included his Olympic victories, the Swede also won three individual sprints and later the overall sprint world cup with a clear lead. The following years were less successful, but he recorded another World Cup victory in the team sprint and again fourth place in the 2007 World Championship sprint. Together with Thobias Fredriksson, Björn Lind is one of the most successful Swedish sprinters of the 2000s.

Career

Beginnings and training at the ski school (1994–2000)

In his youth, which Lind spent in his home region of Roslagen in eastern Sweden, he practiced various sports before he switched to the ski school in Torsby in western Sweden in 1994 ; from now on he concentrated on biathlon and cross-country skiing. Although he would have preferred to practice cross-country skiing, he started in biathlon because he was of the opinion that he did not have enough talent for his favorite discipline. After completing his school career, he did military service in a sports train in the garrison town of Sollefteå , then moved to Umeå in 1999 , where he has lived since then. However, he did not join the local IFK Umeå club , as they were promoting many talents at the time, such as the eventual world champion and overall world cup winner Per Elofsson , and Lind saw no place for himself. Instead, he became a member of Hudiksvalls IF , in the 380 km distant from Umea Hudiksvall is located.

First World Cup races and establishment in the top ten (2000–2003)

Lind's international career began in February 2000 when he competed in his first FIS race in Umeå - but only with Swedish participation. His first competitions were distance races over 15 kilometers, while he rarely ran sprints. At that distance, however, he achieved eleventh place in the Continental Cup , through which he qualified for the World Cup. There he failed early in the prologue in his first two sprints in Engelberg , so that by the end of 2001 he only started in lower-class races. In December 2001 he got his next chance in the top competition class in Cogne, Italy . This time he surprised positively with the best time in the qualification, which he ran together with Cristian Zorzi . In the following quarter-finals he missed the semi-finals after falling in thirteenth place, and Zorzi ultimately won the race. In the two following sprints, Lind set the fastest time in the prologue and placed fourth and ninth once. At the competition in Asiago he narrowly missed the podium, as he was sprinted over by the German Andreas Schlütter in the final. In the further course of the season , Lind was convincing on the short courses, so that the Swedish Association nominated him as one of the three sprinters in the country for the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Swede also showed his skills in the Olympic sprint and kept the two compatriots Thobias Fredriksson and Jörgen Brink at a distance. In the final, in which only four runners took part, he ultimately had to admit defeat to his competitors and therefore remained medalless. On the other hand, he achieved a podium place, his first in the World Cup, in the post-Olympic sprint in Stockholm , where he finished third. The Olympic champion ended the season with two national distance races in Gällivare , in which he also did respectable.

The 2002/03 season started rather weakly for the sprint world cup seventh last winter. At the first World Cup in Clusone he was eliminated in the prologue as 22nd, the following competition he finished ninth. After only finishing eleventh in Linz , Lind took a two-month break from the World Cup, during which he won an FIS race and competed in a second race in second place. At the Swedish championship at the end of January / beginning of February 2003 he achieved seventh place in the 10-kilometer race, his remaining starts ended further back. When he returned to the World Cup, the Swede made it back into the top ten, in Drammen he won the qualification again, but fell back to seventh place in the sprint itself, which was his best result of the season. At the Falun World Cup , Lind ran for the first time in the Swedish relay for the historic province of Hälsingland , which only finished 14th out of 17 relay teams. The Swede ended the winter with the national sprint championship, in which he won bronze behind Brink and Fredriksson. Overall, he deteriorated in the sprint ranking to twelfth place, although he only collected 20 points less than last year.

World class and world championship medals (2003-2005)

The season opener for the 2003/04 World Cup took place in Düsseldorf . Lind managed the street circuit as the fastest in the prologue, but he could not keep up this performance in the competition and finally came fourth. In the team sprint he started together with the weaker Mikael Östberg and reached the finish line in tenth place. Now, like in the previous year, the Swede went into a World Cup break until February 2004, during which, however, he did not achieve any further good results. At the competitions in Scandinavia in February and March he got further decent results, but did not make a place in the top five. Only in Lahti at the team sprint did he show another top result when he and Mats Larsson were only half a second behind the Russian winners and came in second. In Pragelato he again missed the podium in fourth place, so he ended the season with a new personal record of 211 points, with which he was ninth in the Sprint World Cup. He also placed 29th in the overall World Cup, which meant his first top 30 placement there. He finished the winter again at the Swedish Championship in Skellefteå , where he even missed a medal in the sprint.

Even before the first World Cup of the new winter, World Cup 2004/05 , Lind competed in the October sprint in Mora , where he defeated the previous year's World Cup winner, Thobias Fredriksson, and demonstrated his good form. In Düsseldorf, where the season opener took place like last year, the Swede achieved eighth place in the sprint and fifth in the team sprint. In his first 15-kilometer race in the top cross-country class in Gällivare, however, he landed far behind in 56th place. After winning two FIS races, he continued to show himself to be strong at the December World Cups in Bern and Asiago. After a fifth place in the sprint in Bern and fourth place in the team sprint there, he even reached his third podium in Asiago when he finished in third place. In contrast to previous years, he did not take part in the Swedish Championship, but also competed in the World Cup in January. This paid off, because in the sprint of Nové Město na Moravě he ran the fastest qualifying time and confirmed his form as third in the sprint. In the Pragelato team sprint - the dress rehearsal for the Olympic Games held there a year later - he and his partner Tobias Fredriksson placed second. The last competition before his first Nordic World Ski Championships , where he was considered a favorite, failed the Swede, however, he was only thirtieth in Reit im Winkl . At the World Ski Championships itself, Lind confirmed his status as a medal contender by finishing second in qualifying behind Vasily Rotschew . In the competition he also made it to the final, but narrowly missed the medals there due to skiing problems in fourth place. He did not win any precious metal in the team sprint either, with partner Fredriksson he placed ninth. After the World Championship, he contested two World Cup sprints, which he finished in seventh and twelfth respectively. He did not finish a start in pursuit because he had to give up.

Sprint victories in the World Cup and at the Olympics (2005-2006)

Björn Lind with gold medal in team sprint at the 2006 Olympics

In the summer of 2005, Lind said he had no health problems and was therefore able to follow his training plan completely. The winter of 2005/06 became his most successful to date. Düsseldorf, once again forming the season opener, began with the Swede's victory in the prologue. In the race he moved up to fifth place, in the team sprint he finished second with Fredriksson. In three subsequent FIS races he won twice and finished second once, so it came as no surprise when he first won the qualification in Vernon and then finished second in a single sprint in the World Cup for the first time. In Canmore , he scored his first points over the longer distance - his only one to date - by finishing 25th over 30 kilometers. In the team sprint, he also came second on the podium. He proved his exceptionally good form again when he first won the qualification and then for the first time a World Cup in Nové Město. He barely achieved this goal, 0.1 seconds ahead of his compatriot Peter Larsson . A week later, the Swede celebrated his second World Cup success in Otepää , with an unexpectedly large lead over the competition. Lind himself stated that he ran tactically in this race and only used his full speed at the end because of the difficult course. The competitions of Lago di Tesero and Oberstdorf were not so successful for him, with the relay he booked a fourteenth place, in the sprint an eighth place. But already in Davos , the last competitions before the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , the Swede repeated his successes and achieved his third triumph. In addition to the shape, the material would also fit that winter, so that he was not only quick in the prologue, he founded the series of successes that made him a top favorite for Olympic gold. He reinforced this role in the Olympic team sprint when he secured victory for himself and his partner Thobias Fredriksson on the home straight. In fact, Lind won the qualification for the individual sprint clearly, and he won the quarterfinals just as well. He also ran the final from the front and so he finally triumphed by a large margin over Roddy Darragon . The most successful Swedish athlete of the entire Games after gold medals said: “I worked incredibly hard on my technique.” In the sprint, he was only the second Olympic champion, as he had only become Olympic in 2002, and in the team sprint at its Olympic premiere, he was the first. After the double Olympic victory, the Swede did not achieve a podium result in the World Cup for the rest of the season, but he still clearly won the overall sprint standings with 586 points. In the overall World Cup, he placed fourth because, unlike most of the athletes who were up there, he was not an all-rounder, but a pure sprinter. At the national championships in March and April 2006, he did not start again.

Setbacks and end of career (2006–2012)

Lind in Stockholm 2007

In the summer of 2006 Björn Lind signed an advertising contract for the equivalent of more than 100,000 euros with a Swedish manufacturer. The total was one of the highest in cross-country skiing history. The 2006/07 season started again in Düsseldorf. This time Lind only reached eighth place there, together with Peter Larsson, who was also eliminated early, he rehabilitated himself in the team sprint, which the two won - for Lind the first success in that discipline. The following competitions in November 2006 did not go well for the Swede, so he took a break before the Tour de Ski 2006/07 , which was held for the first time . He finished the opening sprint in Munich in ninth, the second short distance in Asiago in tenth, after finishing second in the qualification. Otherwise, the Swede was almost always far behind in the distance races, placing 63rd in the overall tour standings and thus the last of the athletes to cross the finish line. Up to the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 he only competed in a few competitions, but even in a purely Swedish FIS race he was only ninth. At the World Cup, he still reached the final and fourth place, but this remained his best result in an otherwise rather unsuccessful season. After further World Cups with poor placements - an exception was the victory in qualifying for the Drammen Sprint, in which he was tenth - the winner of the previous year in the 2006/07 Sprint World Cup was only classified as 26th.

After the poor performance in the previous winter, Lind, like the two Fredriksson brothers, separated from the Swedish team in July 2007 and trained independently from now on. In addition, he set the goal of no longer being a pure sprinter, but an all-round runner. In fact, this measure seemed successful at the first World Cups of the 2007/08 season . In Düsseldorf he placed second behind surprise winner Josef Wenzl , in Kuusamo he won the prologue, but only finished ninth in the competition. After slipping out of the top ten in Rybinsk , the Swede drove to East Asia at the turn of the year 2007/2008 to compete in the Far East Cup . Although many world-class athletes did not start there, it was not enough to achieve a result better than sixth place, in Shangri-La he even came in 21st in a 30-kilometer FIS race in Changchun , he achieved fifth place. The World Cups in January / February 2008 were mixed for Lind. Although he always came close to 10th place, a top result was not achieved. He achieved this in Lahti when he finished fourth and narrowly missed the podium. Overall, he improved again to eighth place in the Sprint World Cup, although he could not build on the form of winter 2005/06. At the end of the season he won another FIS race in Falun.

As a goal for the coming winter, Lind stated in the summer of 2008 that he wanted to stay healthy and concentrate on the 2009 World Ski Championships in Liberec . The winter of 2008/09 started badly again for him until he reached sixth place in Davos in December. In Düsseldorf he and his partner Thobias Fredriksson also finished second in the team sprint, but otherwise top results were still missing. In order to prepare sufficiently for the Olympic test competitions in Vancouver - Whistler , which were part of the World Cup program in mid-January 2009, the Swede skipped the Tour de Ski, as in the previous year . Another good prologue, which he finished second, was followed by eleventh place in a World Cup race that many top sprinters had left out. In the final sprints of the season, Lind did not get a top result either, the best place was another eleventh place in Valdidentro. Nevertheless, the Olympic champion was nominated as one of four Swedes for the World Ski Championships in Liberec. While his three teammates qualified for the quarter-finals, Lind retired after a fall in the downhill in 61st place, 17 seconds behind and with a running time of three minutes. He was “very disappointed” after the mistake, the cause of which he saw in a “classic inside ski mistake”. Linds Winter ended in two World Cup races, in which he failed to qualify for the first time since February 2005.

In the summer of 2009, the Swede changed clubs for the first time in his career. For seven years, from 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the Hudiksvalls IF , for which other World Cup runners like Peter Larsson and Jörgen Brink competed . In July 2009 he moved to IFK Umeå after having lived in the city for ten years. In order to keep the club's most successful athlete financially, one would have to endanger the youth work, the chairman of the Hudiksvalls IF explained the reasons for Lind's departure. At the beginning of winter 2009/10 he took third place in the team sprint in Düsseldorf together with Peter Larsson . In the individual sprints, he came in six times in the World Cup in the points and twice in the top ten. His best place of the season in the sprint he reached in February 2010 in Canmore with fourth place. At the following Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he achieved 19th place in the classic sprint. In his last season 2010/11 he started in the Marathon Cup . He mostly achieved placements in the midfield. At Finlandia-hiihto he took third place and at the end of the season he finished 25th in the overall cup standings.

Private

Björn Lind is the son of two teachers and has an older sister, Sofia Lind , who also started as a cross-country skier in the World Cup and in marathon races before ending her career in 2006. He is not married but is friends with a photographer. His favorite course in the World Cup is the one in Stockholm because of the atmosphere; he feels the Oberhof course the most difficult because it is difficult to grow properly there.

Lind's trainer is Ola Rawald , who is also the co- trainer and sprint trainer of the Swedish national team and held this position from 2002 to 2006 - in Lind's most successful period, which also saw his double Olympic victory - before he moved to China.

Awards

In 2006 Björn Lind received the Victoria Scholarship, an award given to outstanding Swedish athletes on the occasion of the birthday of the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria . In January 2007 he was named Sportsman of the Year in Sweden. He prevailed against the athlete Christian Olsson , the canoeist Markus Oscarsson and the orienteer Emil Wingstedt . In his acceptance speech, Lind stated:

“Det här har jag inte förberett riktigt. This can be about as much as 12 år also väntade på prisutdelningen i Roslagsmästerskapet. Då var det andra som sculle has priser men nu är hag själv och det uppskattar hunt. "

“I didn't prepare this properly. It feels a bit like when I was twelve years old and waiting for the awards for the championships in Roslagen . Back then, others were supposed to get prizes, but now I'm the one myself and I appreciate that. "

- Björn Lind : January 15, 2007 in the Globenarena , Stockholm

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 30, 2005	Nové Město	Sprint freestyle
2.	January 8, 2006	Otepää	Classic sprint
3.	February 4, 2006	Davos	Sprint freestyle

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	October 29, 2006	Dusseldorf	Team sprint freestyle 1

¹With Peter Larsson .

statistics

The status of all subsequent data is March 18, 2009.

Individual World Cups

All of Björn Lind's results that he achieved in sprints, team sprints, relays and distance races are listed in these tables. The respective season is in the first column, followed by the different World Cups of the season. Here are the results of the Swede in the different races. The abbreviation DNS means that he did not take part in that competition.

So far, Lind has entered 78 World Cup races, three of which he did not start and one of which he finished prematurely. Of the remaining 74 competitions, he contested 59 in the sprint, ten in the team sprint, three in the relay and two in distance races. He celebrated four World Cup victories and a total of 13 podium results.

General information:

1. A tooltip tells you in which place (the country is given in brackets) and when the race took place.
2. Wins, second and third ranks are marked separately with a colored background.
3. World championship competitions and Olympic races are not mentioned as they are not part of the World Cup program and the results are not included in the overall ranking.
4. The sprint races of the Tour de Ski , which are only included in the overall ranking with restrictions, are also not taken into account.

Individual sprints

Hints:

1. First the result is mentioned in the qualification, then the placement in the sprint itself.
2. The best times in the qualification are written in bold.
3. If Lind did not qualify for the quarter-finals, this will be noted by DNQ .

season	WC1	WC2	WC3	WC4	WC5	WC6	WC7	WC8	WC9	WC10
1999/2000	DNS	DNS	DNS	21. / DNQ	DNS	DNS	-	-	-	-
2000/2001	DNS	42. / DNQ	53. / DNQ	DNS	DNS	DNS	-	-	-	-
2001/2002	1st  / 13th	1st  / 4th	1st  / 9th	2nd / 10th	1st  / 13th	2nd / 3rd	DNS	-	-	-
2002/2003	DNS	22. / DNQ	3rd / 9th	11th / 13th	10th / 8th	4th / 8th	1st  / 7th	9. / 10.	-	-
2003/2004	1st  / 4th	DNS	DNS	8th / 9th	3rd / 13th	8th / 7th	8th / 10th	12. / 4.	-	-
2004/2005	6th / 8th	8th / 5th	5th / 3rd	1st  / 9th	30. / DNQ	DNS	8th / 7th	16. / 12.	-	-
2005/2006	1st  / 5th	1st  / 2nd	1st  / 1st	1st  / 1st	3rd / 8th	5th / 1st	9/4	3rd / 9th	14. / 4.	-
2006/2007	8/27	12. / 17.	DNS	DNS	17th / 18th	25. / 28.	1st  / 10th	12. / 6.	-	-
2007/2008	2nd / 2nd	1st  / 9th	13. / 12.	13/11	16. / 10.	DNS	2nd / 10th	7th / 4th	18. / 27.	-
2008/2009	4th / 17th	16. / 6.	13/17	2nd / 11th	12. / 22.	DNS	16. / 11.	48. / DNQ	39. / DNQ	DNS

Team sprints

Hints:

1. First the result in the team sprint, then called Lind's partner.
2. All team sprints are considered to be such, even if the FIS website equates some as team competitions with relays.

season	WC1	WC2	WC3	WC4
2003/2004	10. (with Mikael Östberg )	DNS	DNS	2. (with Mats Larsson )
2004/2005	5. (with Thobias Fredriksson )	4. (with Thobias Fredriksson )	5. (with Mathias Fredriksson )	2. (with Thobias Fredriksson )
2005/2006	2. (with Thobias Fredriksson )	2. (with Thobias Fredriksson )	DNS	-
2006/2007	1. (with Peter Larsson )	-	-	-
2007/2008	DNS	DNS	-	-
2008/2009	2. (with Thobias Fredriksson )	DNS	-	-

Seasons

Note:

First of all, the result of the relay is named, then its line-up (in the starting order).

season	WC1	WC2	WC3	WC4
2002/2003	DNS	DNS	DNS	14 1 (Lind, Richardsson , Langberg , P. Södergren )
In the seasons 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 no relay assignments.
2005/2006	DNS	14. 2 (Lind, Berglund , F. Östberg , Brink )	-	-
2006/2007	19. 2 (Lind, Richardsson , Hellner , Högberg )	DNS	DNS	DNS
No relay assignments in the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 seasons .

¹As a relay Hälsingland . Since the competition took place in Sweden, the country was allowed to provide several relays, which were arranged according to different regions.

²As season Sweden II .

Distance races

In his entire World Cup career, Lind only reached the finish line in two individual races longer than five kilometers and started in only three. He was registered in another two competitions, but did not start. The Swede also took part in the Tour de Ski 2006/07 , the overall ranking - and the individual stages - also made it into the overall World Cup ranking. There he remained weak and finished last in the ranking.

• Gällivare (Sweden), November 20, 2004: 15 kilometers; 56th rank.
• Falun (Sweden) March 19, 2005: Persecution; DNF .
• Canmore (Canada), December 17th, 2005: 30 kilometers, 25th place.

Overall ratings in the World Cup

Lind's placements in the individual discipline World Cups and in the overall World Cup are shown.

• Races: number of races taken / number of races carried out
• Points: Points won in the races
• Place: Placement at the end of the World Cup season in the respective discipline ranking or the overall World Cup

season	distance			sprint			total
	run	Points	space	run	Points	space	run	Points	space
1999/2000	0/15	-	-	1/6	10	63.	1/21	10	103.
2000/2001	0/13	-	-	2/6	-	-	2/19	-	-
2001/2002	0/13	-	-	6/7	205	7th	6/20	139	33.
2002/2003	0/13	-	-	7/8	184	12.	7/21	100	45.
2003/2004	0/17	-	-	6/8	211	9.	6/25	211	29
2004/2005	2/12	-	-	7/8	256	6th	9/20	255	20th
2005/2006	1/15	6th	115.	9/9	586	1.	10/24	531	4th
2006/2007	1/12	-	-	6/8	100	26th	6/20	97	53.
2007/2008	0/15	-	-	8/9	261	8th.	8/24	261	28.
2008/2009	0/15	-	-	8/10	125	20th	8/25	125	54.

Web links

• Björn Lind in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Björn Lind in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on rossignol.com
• Profile on sok.se

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Nielsen: Bjorn Lind trodde inte pa sig sjalv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sydsvenskan.se. Published on February 14, 2006 in Sydsvenskan . Retrieved August 30, 2009. (Swedish)  
2. ↑ Björn Lind ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on teammekonomen.se. Retrieved August 19, 2009. (Swedish) 
3. ↑ The Olympia ticket solved  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on burgermeister.net. Published in the Zürcher Oberländer on December 10, 2001. Accessed on January 31, 2009.  
4. ↑ "BUDERUS" FIS WORLD CUP CROSS-COUNTRY 2nd World Cup Competition MEN SPRINT F (PDF; 94 kB) on fis-ski.com. Retrieved January 31, 2009.
5. ^ Schlütter in the ski sprint third ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on abendblatt.de. Published in the Hamburger Abendblatt on December 20, 2001.
6. ↑ RESULTS / RÉSULTATS MEN'S SPRINT SPRINT HOMMES (PDF; 40 kB) on fis-ski.com. Retrieved January 31, 2009.
7. ↑ During the team sprint of the cross-country skiers in Lahti  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rp-online.de. Published on March 6, 2004 in the Rheinische Post .  
8. ↑ Eli Brown: Centrix Boots Go One-Two In Swedish Sprint ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fasterskier.com. Published October 19, 2004 (English), accessed January 31, 2009. 
9. ↑ Schedule of the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 on handelsblatt.com. Published on February 13, 2005 in the Handelsblatt . Retrieved January 31, 2009.
10. ↑ The bear beats the elk (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on schnee-bewegt.com. Published on February 23, 2005 in WM-Daily, the official daily magazine of the “FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf”. Retrieved January 31, 2009.  
11. ↑ ^{a b} Mario Felgenhauer: Comments on the World Cup in Otepää ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on xc-ski.com. Released January 10, 2006. Accessed January 31, 2009. 
12. ↑ Sidko and Lind win in Nove Mesto  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rp-online.de. Published in the Rheinische Post on December 30, 2005. Accessed on January 31, 2009.  
13. ↑ Racing: Swedish double victory on Fischer in the sprint in Davos (SUI)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on fischer-ski.com. Released February 4, 2006. Accessed January 31, 2009.  
14. ↑ Schlütter / Filbrich in fourth place ( memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on sport.ard.de. Released February 14, 2006. Accessed January 31, 2009.
15. ↑ Bjoern Lind confirms role as a favorite ( memento from October 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on sport.ard.de. Released February 22, 2006. Accessed January 31, 2009.
16. ↑ Sweden at the 2006 Torino Winter Games on sports-reference.com (English) accessed on February 7, 2009.
17. ↑ Claudia Künzel sprints to silver . Spiegel Online , February 22, 2006; Retrieved on.
18. ↑ Mario Felgenhauer: Björn Lind concludes record contract ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at skiinternat-oberstdorf.de. Released September 2, 2006. Accessed January 31, 2009. 
19. ↑ Strong start for German sprinters in Düsseldorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on worldcup-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved January 31, 2009.  
20. ↑ Mario Felgenhauer: Swedish cross-country team is falling apart ( memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on xc-ski.com. Released July 4, 2007. Accessed January 31, 2009. 
21. ↑ Wenzl slips into the yellow jersey ( memento of the original from December 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sueddeutsche.de. Published on October 27, 2007 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved January 31, 2009. 
22. ↑ Björn Lind on rossignol.com. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
23. ↑ Lind borta - föll i kvalet on eurosport.se. Released February 24, 2009. Accessed August 18, 2009. (Swedish)
24. ↑ Mats Hansson: Björn Lind lämnar Hudiksvalls IF ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on helahalsingland.se. Published on July 17th, 2009 in the Helahälsingland . Retrieved August 30, 2009. (Swedish) 
25. ^ Profile of Sofia Lind at fis-ski.com/de (English) accessed on August 30, 2009.
26. ↑ Mario Felgenhauer: Sweden 2008/2009 on xc-ski.de. Released May 16, 2008. Retrieved February 7, 2009.
27. ↑ Swedish Success Coach Moves To China ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from fasterskier.com, May 9, 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2009. 
28. ↑ 3000 hyllade prinsessan Victoria på Öland on aftenbladet.se. Released July 14, 2006. Retrieved August 19, 2009. (Swedish)
29. ↑ Pristagare Idrottsgalan  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on svt.se. Released January 15, 2007. Accessed August 21, 2009. (Swedish)  
30. ↑ David Nannini Nilsson: Årets manlige idrottare: Björn Lind on aftenbladet.se. Released January 15, 2007. Accessed August 19, 2009. (Swedish)